How Does Your Garden Grow??????
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Bareback
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Sorry to laugh but I live in the Deep South and sweet corn is a finicky crop. I rarely get what I want out of it but this year I able to get 100 ears . Next I’m growing field corn, have you tried it. If you have the space you could try starting it inside and move outside after frost.
Good luck.
myke
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ya my night temps are always 50-60f.Containers,get moved into the garage at night for May and June.Will try starting indoors next year.
injinji
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We had a forecast low of 69F last week, but it didn't happen. It's supposed to get down to 74 tonight. That is about normal for this time of year. The next three weeks will be the hottest of the year. In the 90's everyday with high humidity.
xtsho
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Peak harvest going on right now. I didn't even get to picking the cherry tomatoes. I also have some corn that's ready to pick. I replanted beets and they're golf ball size and will be ready soon. Including the overwintered beets this will be the third harvest and I just planted more for a late fall harvest. I'm really getting a lot of produce by doing succession planting. It just takes a little planning and it's easy to get 2 or more harvests from the same space. Early crops like radishes, turnips, lettuce, etc... are harvested and tomato's, peppers, and eggplant take their place. When my tomato's are done I'm going to plant beets, carrots, onions, and Fava beans in that spot and I'll plant next years tomatoes in a different location next year as it's good to rotate crops. So my goal of having a year round garden is working out.
I'm definitely growing fewer summer squash next year. I'm already tired of eating it so I'm going to be freezing a bunch. I'm also going to likely just freeze tomato sauce this year. The only thing I'm going to can is green beans. I might can some whole tomatoes but only because a volunteer San Marzano came up in the back area that I call my "anything grows" section and it's got a decent amount of tomatoes on it.
The San Marzano volunteer. It's spread out on the ground since I didn't stake it or anything. You can't see all the tomatoes but they're in that mess.
Here's some more volunteers. It was a sunflower, patty pan summer squash, and a cherry tomato. I let the cherry tomato climb up the sunflower for support. Seems to be working out.
Another volunteer sunflower.
I'm definitely growing fewer summer squash next year. I'm already tired of eating it so I'm going to be freezing a bunch. I'm also going to likely just freeze tomato sauce this year. The only thing I'm going to can is green beans. I might can some whole tomatoes but only because a volunteer San Marzano came up in the back area that I call my "anything grows" section and it's got a decent amount of tomatoes on it.
The San Marzano volunteer. It's spread out on the ground since I didn't stake it or anything. You can't see all the tomatoes but they're in that mess.
Here's some more volunteers. It was a sunflower, patty pan summer squash, and a cherry tomato. I let the cherry tomato climb up the sunflower for support. Seems to be working out.
Another volunteer sunflower.
xtsho
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Frost warning? Not here in the Pacific Northwest. In fact it's supposed to be in the upper 90's a week from now 97° F next Thursday with lows at night in the mid 60's F. It's stupid hot and not a drop of rain in sight. Perfect weather for forest fires. I'm hoping for some significant rain in the next ten days.
8:30 PM current conditions in Portland.
83° F and 37% humidity.
myke
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Mondays forecast here in S Alberta H8 L1c with 10-15mm rain.Hope it changes.
waterproof808
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harvested some tomatillos. these are super easy to grow,
xtsho
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How do you prepare/use them? I grew 1 plant years ago. The thing got pretty big and I ended up with tons of tomatillos. I just couldn't find a use for them. I made some salsa but I didn't really like it that much. I might give them another try next year with some different recipes.
MICHI-CAN
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Not sure. But ours was tender when we took an early sample. Then leathery at the end of season.